Study Plan
The PhD in Global Public Health has a duration of four years (240 ECTS). In the first year of the programme, students undertake compulsory teaching units that make up 33 ECTS and optional units that make up 27 ECTS. From the second to the fourth year student are assigned to their thesis project (180 ECTS).
Mandatory Course Units:
- UC Environmental and Occupational Health and Physical Determinants
- UC Epidemiology
- UC Global Health, Population Health and Social Determinants
- UC Health Policy, Economics, Organizational Theory and Management [available soon]
- UC Health Promotion, Health Education and Health Protection and Disease Prevention
- UC Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews
- UC Qualitative methodologies
- UC Research Ethics in Public Health
- UC Statistics
- UC Thesis
Optional Course Units:
- UC Advanced Epidemiologic Methods
- Advanced methods of geographical information systems [available soon]
- UC Applied Health Economics
- UC Bioinformatics
- UC Clinical Epidemiology
- Diabetes and Public Health
- Econometrics for public health [available soon]
- UC Economic Evaluation in Health
- UC Elective 1
- UC Elective 2
- UC Genetics and Public Health
- UC Health Monitoring
- UC Human Resources for Health Policies
- UC Local Power and Health Promotion
- UC Mental Health of the Populations
- UC Mental Health Policies
- UC Mental Health Services Research
- UC Health Nutrition
- UC Occupational Health and Safety in Healthcare
- UC Perinatal Epidemiology
- UC Statistic Methods in Clinical Epidemiology
- UC Thesis Project